oeuf

Borrowed from French œuf. Doublet of egg, ey, huevo, and ovum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɜːf/

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• Rhymes: -ɜːf
• Homophone: erf (non-rhotic)

oeuf (plural oeufs)

1. (humorous, only in puns or referring to French cooking) An egg.

• IPA^(key): /œf/

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oeuf m (plural oeufs)

1. nonstandard spelling of œuf

• The œ ligature is often replaced in contemporary French with oe (the œ character does not appear on AZERTY keyboards), but this is nonstandard.

• “oeuf”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

oeuf m (plural oeufs)

1. egg (an ovum)